Seaport psychoanalysis: personality resistance to defense mechanisms.

• Main Author: Lileikis, Saulius
• Format: Book Part
• Language: Lithuanian; English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Seaport; psychoanalysis; defense mechanisms; resistance; Arctic
• Online Access: http://lajm.lvb.lt/LAJM:ELABAPDB41545555&prefLang=en_US

Defense mechanisms operate semi-consciously. They are natural and important because they help survive.However, at the same time they disturb the smooth collaborationin a work-team. It is necessary, as much as it is possible, to apply psychological self-management in stressful situations that prevail in the seaport characterized by intensive activities of cargo handling, warehousing, ship agency, forwarding, etc. A skilled seaport worker is operating in a port, which is characterized by the seashore that connects the seaand the land. In this connection, the seashore symbolizes a resistance to sea waves that psychoanalytically symbolize often destructive psychological defense mechanisms. Thegoal of the paper is a discussion of the personality resistanceto psychological defense mechanisms regarding seaport psychoanalysis. The main methods such as scientific literature analysis, interpretation, heuristic method and systemization were used in the research based on symbolic interactionism, psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.